What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to secure a share of society’s wealth? In response to the changing demands of the age, this agenda has been expressed in changing language. Yet, because the underlying pattern remains recognizable, the modernization of the state in response to foreign aggression can be studied in longer perspective.
The author offers three concrete studies to illustrate the constitutional agenda in action: how the early nineteenth-century scholar-activist Wei Yuan confronted the relation between broadened political participation and authoritarian state power; how the reformist proposals of the influential scholar Feng Guifen were received by mainstream bureaucrats during the 1898 reform movement; and how fiscal problems of the late empire formed a backdrop to agricultural collectivization in the 1950s. In each case, the author presents the “modern” constitutional solution as only the most recent answer to old Chinese questions. The book concludes by describing the transformation of the constitutional agenda over the course of the modern period.
Philip A. Kuhn is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University. His most recent book is Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768, winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.
我想孔飞力的研究和学理源头是对中国社会“建制议程”——内在发展动力的探询,其中必须处理的是中央政府权力对地方势力的管控(矛盾)和渗透,及其在不同时期的变异、政策与具体情境,而这些问题的直接线索便是税收制度,或者说,是国家税收制度在地方所遇到阻力、效用及失效...
评分 评分翻完了孔飞力的《中国现代国家的起源》,去惠州时带着但也只看了导论,当时看到说清朝末年的社会制度是“无法同自身政治使命和任务相契合的制度”(p.8)时还心想,嗯,挺马克思的。昨天读第一章时发现其迷人之处,史料丰富,论证流畅,今天读完这122页觉得能在这么短的篇幅处...
评分十三哥: 好久不见,听说你结婚了,我很伤心。我永远都不会忘记上学那几年,我们仨去畅畅书店、去万泉河畔、去野草博雅堂、去潘家园、去中华书局淘书,回来后在旧书的尘埃里,在北区食堂三楼,每人吃一份牛肉炒饭,就能喝掉许多瓶啤酒,聊天,互相吹捧和贬损,再抱着书,...
评分十三哥: 好久不见,听说你结婚了,我很伤心。我永远都不会忘记上学那几年,我们仨去畅畅书店、去万泉河畔、去野草博雅堂、去潘家园、去中华书局淘书,回来后在旧书的尘埃里,在北区食堂三楼,每人吃一份牛肉炒饭,就能喝掉许多瓶啤酒,聊天,互相吹捧和贬损,再抱着书,...
现代中国的起源
评分強調從中國內部的脈絡觀察近代史
评分说是起源,其实是过程,而且没有结果-甚至不知道“结果”是否可能。读完之后略绝望。
评分谁应该参与制定国家政策?如何减少政治竞争对公共利益的负面影响?如何平衡国家税收和地方、个人收入?清朝可说是亡于对这三个问题的处理不力。这些问题是所有国家都要面对的,美国国父们曾经和晚清士族有过同样的顾虑,却选择了不同的道路。本书即从历史和文化角度介绍了中国所做的选择的原因,也就是现代中国国家体制的来源。内容很有启发性,而篇幅并不长,任何人如果想更好地理解现代中国,都应该读读本书。中文版译为《中国现代国家的起源》,大陆版可能有删节。
评分找到了电子版pdf,很赞
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